Al Gore Breaks Silence to Skeptics

Al Gore recently wrote a response to the growing number of climate skeptics. It was published in the New York Times. Since, the science of climate change has been called into question recently, he wanted to respond to all of the criticism. Inaccuracies were found in reports published by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

The former vice president said, “I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”

Read the full response here.

Clean Water Act Enforcement Loophole

A major loophole was found that could hinder enforcement of the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act, established in 1972, gave the Environmental Protection Agency the right to regulate toxic dumping in waterways. The Supreme Court recently called into question the term “navigable waters” paving the way for over 45 percent of major polluters to ignore dumping laws. This loophole could affect the drinking water of over 100 million Americans.

Learn more: New York Times